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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ZombieRoboNinja" data-source="post: 6009809" data-attributes="member: 54843">This would be a great house rule or even official rules module for wizards. It would be fairly easy to patch together too: the slotless wizard gets the Willpower progression and spell costs of the Sorcerer alongside the max spell level and spell selection of the standard Wizard. (I would probably say that he doesn't get the benefits of a tradition, to help make up for the extra power this setup would give him... he might still be too powerful though.)To make it simpler, you could take a page from the 5e cleric: each day the wizard picks a fixed number of spells (of any level) to memorize. He also starts each day with a fixed number of MP. He can recast individual spells as many times as he wants, until he runs out of MP.However, I don't think this would ever be a default setup. Frankly, I'm not a huge fan of re-rigging the slot-based wizard/cleric spell lists to work with new systems, because it always ends up meaning adding more complexity to an already over-complex system. There are a bunch of ways to make a balanced, memorization-based caster without spell slots, if you're willing to ditch the traditional spell lists:1. All spells scale all the way up to max level (although some might have a minimum level), so every spell is worth the same. At the beginning of each day you memorize a fixed number of spells. (Like 3e wizards, you can memorize multiple copies of a single spell.) The number of spells memorized per day scales up very slowly, but that's okay because you keep powering up existing ones as you level. (Think fighter maneuvers or warlock invocations here: they're supposed to be just as useful at level 10 as they are at level 1.)2. Each spell allows you to spend a variable amount of MP. The max MP you can spend per spell adjusts as you level up. (I think 3e psionics worked this way?) You memorize a fixed number of spells each day, but you can reuse them, and you can adjust how much MP to spend on each casting on the fly.3. For something really different, make spells much less powerful (akin to warlock minor invocations). You can memorized a very low number of them each day (like 2-4), but you can cast each of the spells you've memorized as often as you want. 4. Same as above, but some (or all) of the spells are per-encounter, like warlock lesser invocations.Anyway, all viable possibilities, as are all the ideas the OP and others have mentioned here, but the question is which of these options would be worth the extra design work? How many people want to memorize spells each day but don't like the traditional Vancian wizard?</blockquote>

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